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Watch: Kirk Cameron Claims Hurricanes are God's 'Punishment' or 'Love'
Kirk Cameron, the former child actor turned darling of the evangelical circuit, can now add religious weatherman to his growing CV.
Responding to back-to-back hurricanes Harvey and Irma that ripped through the southeastern United States, Cameron offered his explanation for the super storms. Spoiler alert: climate change isn't mentioned. Speaking on a Facebook video, Cameron said the storms that left thousands homeless were messages from God.
"How should we look at two giant hurricanes coming back-to-back like this?" Cameron asked. "Do we write them off as coincidence? Do we write it off as a statistical anomaly? Wow! Who would've thought? Is it just Mother Nature in a bad mood? I don't know how you think about it but I think it could be something much more than all of that."
While scientists point to rising ocean temperatures as a cause for the increased frequency of hurricanes, Cameron claims that they are "a spectacular display of God's immense power" which he sends for a reason.
Referencing The Bible's Book of Job, Cameron noted that God "causes [hurricanes like Irene and Harvey] to happen for punishment." He also claimed that the storms "demonstrate His faithful love."
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Roasted Broccoli with Garlic
If you've never Roasted Garlic you might not understand why this recipe for Roasted Broccoli with Garlic is so special, but trust me. This is not only one of the easiest broccoli recipes I've made, but also one of the tastiest broccoli dishes you can imagine.
Roasting sweetens the garlic and brings out the flavor of the broccoli in a most delightful way. Try it once and I'll bet whenever you're cooking something in the oven, tossing in some broccoli to roast is going to be your favorite way to cook broccoli. And this recipe couldn't be healthier or more versatile; hope you will try it soon!
Roasted Broccoli with Garlic
(Makes about 4 servings, recipe adapted from The Food Network.)
1 bunch broccoli, about 1 1/2 pounds, cut into bite sized flowerets
3 T extra virgin olive oil
6-8 cloves fresh garlic (or more, I used about 12 cloves)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Toss broccoli with olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper, then spread on a baking sheet. Roast until broccoli is bright green and edges are starting to brown slightly, 20-25 minutes. Serve hot.
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The Return of The Comiskey
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Just a bit ago, I was able to track down our old pal, Jim Comiskey. Given the current state of affairs, I thought it might be fun to get his take on everything from the S&P, to the metals to the latest report of Mad Cow Disease in California.
Ole Jim didn't disappoint. To listen to the podcast in its entirety, just click the microphone icon to the left. While you're listening, here are some other items that I found relevant as we passed through the day.
First up, a story from late yesterday about China bypassing the dollar and using gold to purchase Iranian oil. Santa's pretty worked up about it and rightfully so. He discussed this situation and more during his latest with Eric King. http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/4/24_Sinclair_-_Shorts_Now_Trapped_%26_Gold_Could_Gap_Up_to_$3,000.html. The article that brought all of this to the fore can be found here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/04/22/the-best-reason-in-the-world-to-buy-gold/. And here are my thoughts from last night:
"The question you need to ask is: If true, what will the Iranians do with the gold they receive in exchange for oil? They'll most likely convert it into some type of currency which they can then exchange for gasoline, food, etc. Which currency would they convert it to? Dollars? No. Euro? Doubtful. Pounds. Not a chance. Yen? Be serious. Maybe they trade the gold to Russia in exchange for wheat, fuel and weapons?
I dunno. Maybe this story has it all wrong and they don't take gold at all? Why not just take renminbi for your crude and begin building reserves in it instead of dollars? Much easier than shipping gold around and an account at the PBoC is a lot safer than storing your gold at home. Ask Gaddafi or Saddam about that one."
As a follow-up, you should also read this interesting note from Izabella Kaminska at the Financial Times:
Next, there were two items I found today from Charles Hugh Smith. This first piece is about the "disappearance" of money. You've likely heard me state before that gold provides protection for your wealth and the silver provides you protection to purchase basic necessities. This article is along those lines:
This second piece comes via Chris Martenson's blog and it follows on the theme of fudged and manipulated government data. As we barrel toward another BLSBS report next week, I thought this was timely:
Oh, and this is fun. Santa posted this link earlier. It's a map of every U.S. police department that has the authorization/capability to launch and use aerial drones. How nice. God Bless the U.S.A. Land of the Monitored and Home of the Surveilled.
Next, here's a video from Paul Coghlan. Paul is one of Andrew Maguire's business partners and he operates his own trading service. He publishes these updates daily for his subscribers and offered this one to all Turdites as an introduction to his services. Pretty good stuff!
I owe you some charts, too, so here they are. First up, let's look at gold. We are still being pressed lower by the downtrend line but we are getting close to what should be very strong support between 1600 and 1620. We might have bottomed yesterday but I don't think so. My gut tells me that there is at least one more thrust lower to test and confirm a double bottom. From there, a move higher that takes gold back UP through 1660 and then 1680 will confirm that this nasty episode is behind us.
In regards to silver, I thought we should start with a chart of crude. HUH? That's right, crude. Do you recall last week when I mentioned that the silver chart looked a lot like the crude chart from late March and that silver was subject to "getting its stops gunned"? Well, guess what happened? And now what? Note that immediately after the crude stops were gunned a few weeks ago, crude bounced back but failed at the old support line, which had now become resistance. It then sold off further to a deeper low before consolidating and turning higher.
Note that silver may be following this same, classic pattern. The stops got gunned yesterday and down she went. A rally today failed right near where the old support had been and now it has since turned back lower. Will we next see a lower low, perhaps near the $30 level that we've all been waiting for? Probably.
Lastly, silver open interest rose again yesterday to a new 2012 high of 122,727. Again, for reference, back on 2/24 with price $5 higher, total OI peaked at 118,204 before falling along with price to 106,723 on 3/15. Since that date, price has fallen another $1.50 yet OI has risen by over 15%. The spring is obviously being coiled for a dramatic move. Which direction will it be? I imagine you can guess what I think.
Have a great evening and overnight. Get ready for a volatile rest of the week. TF
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First and only
First and only time I'll do this
I have a private inventory-tracking index of over 20 assorted species of silver bullion at a major retailer, and from Sunday night 9PM PDT until now, it is down around 8%.
This is the 2nd biggest drop I've observed since a 16% drop between two data points on the 26th and 29th of February. I began quantitative tracking on 2/3/12 for my own investment purposes, and generally do not track daily, but maybe 4x per week.
Thank you very much.
This chart says a TRILLION WORDS:
Now that DENNIS GARTMAN has announced that "THE END OF THE GOLD BULL MARKET" is here, the rest of the MSM nitwits bring on more bearish news about gold and silver. Here we can see that since FEB 29th, gold and silver have been taken down. While this is bad enough, the HUI relative to the DOW JONES has received a royal enema.... courtesy of the BERNANKE.
Thank God for folks like JIM SINCLAIR who knows when to call a SPADE a SPADE. Looks like fireworks are coming shortly for those who hold large amounts of FIAT NOTES in their sweaty palms.
I'm sick and tired!
I am sick and tired of the manipulation. I am sick of the rigged markets. I got into investing because I figured I could retire more quickly, that I was smart and could learn to invest wisely and build a future for my descendants. And now, I discover that the system is doomed and my best investment is in PMs, PB, land and stores of food.
If only I were 100 feet tall and could tear down the system like Godzilla... or were a multi-billionaire like Soros or Buffet who could bring down the whole system by cornering the market on AG and bankrupting all the manipulative, hubristic, sophistic, self-serving, unethical institutions that are leveraged to the gills in this non-sequiter banking system, then I would sing this song!
Edit: SRSrocco, Right now I am thanking the banksters for this engineered dip so I can get some cheaper gold and silver. One day, when I am an old fart, I'll tell the story to my grandkids. We will all laugh and take another sip of sweet iced tea on the veranda in our country home in the new system that rises from the ashes.
Full version of the song and explanation at: http://soundcloud.com/zefrank/whipass 2nd edit... Yes, I did have a hard day at work today with my manipulative, sociopathic bosses!
The drones situation is
The drones situation is exactly why I'm warning everyone to get out of everything paper. Buy up every damn ounce of gold/silver you can. The sooner you do this and coordinate this effort with the Indian and Chinese public, the sooner that the Federal government looses its ability to keep things in place when nobody accepts the US dollar in payment for anything.
The Swiss are helping Iran get around the embargo
This Is How The Swiss Are Making The Oil Embargo 'No Big Deal' For Iran
The Swiss Foreign Ministry has dismissed the U.S.-led oil and financial industry embargoes against Iran and will allow the Iranian Central Bank to conduct business activities there despite Western concern over Iran's nuclear development program.
It also will continue the import of Iranian oil, according to Rudolf Christen of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
"The Swiss decision to allow transactions by the Iranian Central Bank undermines the U.S.-driven financial sanctions," according to Hague-based Heinrich Matthee. "Swiss-based actors will benefit from the decision." Switzerland's decision puts it at odds with other European countries.
Posted on businessinsider.com website and the link is here.
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Thanks, TF. Drones?
We've seen the Mossad enough to know that you don't play rough with the toys, but you play rough with the toymakers...or with our silly bureaucracy so hung up on its silly papers, just 'pencil in' the clerks that would need to sign off. LOL. Imagine that...the whole mess brought down for want of a bold clerk.
It's worse than market manipulation though. It's been a wholesale dismantling of everything (culturally, economically, etc.) that was the traditional strength and independence of America. It's older than us, but its fruits are very ripe now. Here is a glimpse of the engineered poverty, told to us by ABC as a disarmingly feel-good prom story (Alice, Mr. Rabbit, is this Wonderland?):
"Owsley County has the lowest median household income in the country.
Booneville, population 5,000, struggles with a lack of jobs due to the decline in the coal, tobacco and lumber industries. "
Each of them was systematically and methodically destroyed at the hands of the .gov.
Appalachia (and similar regions around the country) are to the Federal .gov what Ukraine was to Stalin.
Here are the 3 richest counties, for comparison:
"1. Boasting a strong school system and located about six miles away from the nation's capital, Falls Church has for years enticed rich families, making it the nation's richest county.
2. Louden County, VA - The second richest county in the nation used to be a sleepy rural community just a few decades ago, but in recent years it became a technology center and a popular Washington, D.C. suburb.
3. Another Washington county, Fairfax County, Va., rounds out the top three. With 1.1 million residents, this populous county has a massive federal government presence. It is home to companies with strong connections to the government, like Freddie Mac, and intelligence agencies like the CIA and the National Counterterrorism Center."
is the loneliest number!
Sinclair said
"massive paper gold shorts"
What massive paper gold shorts? There are two sides to every trade on the Crimex and the current open interest is not "massive". Is he talking about OTC and the short interest in the gold shares? Good luck figuring out the short interest on the OTC. Although gold share short interest is not hard to figure out.
In any case, he said gold could gap up to $3,000. What a bunch of bull sh-t. He and Turk are positioning themselves to be the next Laurel and Hardy. I'm no longer going to be sucked into their rhetoric. I'm betting my liquidity that gold gets beat down with the overall market.
All we need now is the "mysterious" London Trader to spew his falsehoods on KWN.
Tashakkur Atu
Appreciate the update, efcharisto!
Did someone mention cheese - -
I suppose I hat-tipped your post because of the metaphor.
Cheese is similar to the color of gold. And there is a consuming, pestilent, rodent right in the middle.
Cheez Whiz, you guys. Gimme a break!
Didn't have a chance to post first. Maybe fifteenth?
Gold vs Yuan Oil Settlement
Chinese want to legitimize gold as the settlement vehicle of choice
to make the most threatening gesture to USD. Santa said this
also I believe.
@Dr Jerome - Frustration
You're not the only frustrated one here. I started stacking almost 2 years ago. The avg cost for my silver stack is underwater at the current price (and I don't mean that terrible boating accident :) ).
I would have been better off to keep the fiat in the bank to this point in time. I'm still holding some dry powder, but I cannot get myself to buy more yet. Europe is collapsing, central banks/governments are buying gold, PM production is down, BUT I keep wondering how much longer the EE and TPTB can keep doing what they have been doing; another 3, 6, 12, 24, 360 months? The PMs keep going lower. They seem to have lots of tricks/power to do as they will. When will it end?
Silver Technical Analysis 04.24.2012
Re: Gold vs Yuan Oil Settlement
>>Chinese want to legitimize gold as the settlement vehicle of choice
to make the most threatening gesture to USD<<
IMHO, absolutely not! The Chinese are not going to start that kind of war until they have accumulated much more gold and pledged more of their U.S. Treasuries as the only collateral for loans... which loans are being used to buy commodities and mines. In the meantime they will just enter into currency swap agreements with more nations.
I also am underwater until we reach 35. I am still buying! I have a good bit of AG underthe waves so I am adding to my meager AU holding now. I am also prepping with commodities that will likely be more expensive next year. We are eating last year's prep items now and purchasing new ones. I don't see anywhere else to place my small bounty that will benefit me except food and gold.
The curse of the last post...
...is that it's almost is never topical on the next thread. Nevertheless, for more notes on cheese and other items related to preparing accordingly, take a look here.
Good to see Jim C. is doing well, I look forward to hearing his thoughts.
From time to time, it is useful to look at how the 'other side' is shaping its "public communications efforts" (***COUGH*** propaganda *** COUGH ***) -- while not exactly new or unsurprising, China and Russia are most definitely gearing up for a shift away from the 'unipolar world' model in place since the nineties.
"Just as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, Russia should let the Chinese wind fill its sails," the expert said, adding that "we want Chinese wind to be strong, warm, and friendly."
A powerful China is in the interests of both countries, he said, citing a diplomatic success the two sides achieved on Syria and Iran as an example.
And this is the US-facing, English version... As many before me have mentioned, these former-and-aspiring-to-yet-again-be world powers are willing to wait, and as things currently stand have time on their side to a large degree.
When Forbes publishes a piece highlighting the (marginally) diminishing role of USD in global trade, and almost foreshadowing a rise in the prominence of gold (one way to prevent China and other countries from 'bartering' gold for oil is to designate it 'money'...), it is either a red herring of utmost size, or a way to gradually introduce the concept to the mainstream consciousness.
its unraveling like a skein
its unraveling like a skein of yarn... yawnnnnn
Pumping stocks
Pumping stocks, yes, a young ws buck called me today touting he latest stock pics, the probable outcome will be a pump and dump. Loose money old man?, advised the eager lad that I was retired from stock market and to take me off his list as I am preparing for financial and economic chaos.
Dr Jerome
Good for you on the continued purchasing. I'm not sure I could get my better half to give the ok to buy more at this point. I think we already have more than she is aware of :) Growing up since the 60's I have a hard time coming to grips with the possibility of food/water shortages in the US. I just cannot jump on that bandwagon yet. I may regret that, time will tell.
LBMA Price Setting at The Fixes
For those that are fixated by this, in case it has not been posted before.
First Yeah!!!!
First! Yeah!!!
The mood on the TA's this week is DOWN for silver. The thing that concerns us is the numbers on the COT report for the commercial silver. Long= 145730 and short 321,821. Since the EE moves the market at will and they have the massive short position, then I ask "how will the silver move upward until the shorts are decreased with some real volume"? jmo
Got a job peeps! Let the
Got a job peeps! Let the party begin!
PS Thanks for the support during this time. It's been a hell of a long slog but it finally happened!


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Lehigh Valley campus biology students accepted into prestigious research course
Lehigh Valley campus biology students accepted into prestigious research course
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Three Penn State Lehigh Valley undergraduates have been accepted to participate in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored training course normally reserved for faculty and advanced postdoctoral fellows. Tyler Adams, Michael Mfarej and Taylor Rundatz received full scholarships, air fare and lodging to attend Rehabilitative and Regenerative Medicine for Minority Health and Health Disparities (REMEDY), a Frontiers Advanced Training Course, from Dec. 3 to 7 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
"This is an incredible achievement for these young undergraduate researchers to learn state-of-the-art bioengineering, cellular, molecular and genetic research methods alongside leaders in the field," said Jacqueline McLaughlin, associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley and faculty mentor to the students. "It will be invaluable experience for them as they continue honing their research skills and preparing for careers in science."
According to the program website, "REMEDY offers dynamic training courses that provide a fresh series of daily lecturers on emerging concepts, followed by extended discussion, laboratory research, technologically intense workshops and informal seminars over a week-long period. The primary aim is to educate and update rehabilitation and regeneration researchers on the implications of stem cells and tissue engineering for mechanistic discoveries and on designing improved strategies for rehabilitation discoveries, especially in the CNS (central nervous system) and skeletal-muscular systems."
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Insurance fear for stolen BMWs
BMW owners are being warned insurance companies may refuse to pay out if their car is stolen by crooks who reprogram a new set of keys.
Autoblog reported last week on the BBC Watchdog story that revealed thousands of BMWs – built between 2006 and 2011 – were easy targets for crooks who had worked out they could break into the cars, plug a device into the diagnostics system and reprogram a new key in minutes.
Last night the programme highlighted the case of one owner who had been made to feel as if he'd played a part in the theft of his car by insurance company Liverpool Victoria.
The programme reported the owner's story hadn't been believed and that he was asked to prove how his car was stolen.
The programme reported the owner's story hadn't been believed and that he was asked to prove how his car was stolen.
The insurance firm did eventually settle the claim after a four-month battle but the owner has been left facing higher premiums as a result.
A spokesman for Liverpool Victoria told Autoblog: "The customer made a claim for the theft of his car which we settled in full. Despite these cases highlighted, because of modem technology, it is now very rare for a car to be stolen without the keys and in these cases, a specialist team takes a number of steps to investigate the claim to confirm the circumstances. We regret that in this particular case our enquiries took longer than usual."
But the customer's experience has highlighted a growing concern among BMW owners that their cars won't be covered if they are stolen in a similar way.
As Autoblog reported last week, many owners are taking drastic action and moving the diagnostics port – which the criminals use to crack the keys – into a safer location. There are steps on how this can be done online.
We contacted the Association of British Insurers who told us owners should contact their vehicle's manufacturer if they are aware their car has defects to get it rectified as soon as possible.
A spokesman added: "Insurers will pay out if they believe customers have taken reasonable care of their cars. By that we mean securely locked when unattended."
Concerned BMW owners should call the manufacturer's customer services department on 0800 083 4397 or visit their local dealer. BMW added that models built after 2011 cannot be stolen in the same way.


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Specifically, I'll be looking at the implementation and evolution of the following components of the generator:
- City block placement. This is arguably the most important stage as it defines the overall layout of the city.
- Edge and node linking. A housekeeping stage that prepares the data structures for the road weighting stage.
- Road weighting. A city with roads which all have the same number of lanes isn't very realistic, so this stage uses an algorithm to determine the number of lanes each road should have.
- Road and building painting. With the city structure generated, all that's left is to translate it into the format used by the engine during actual gameplay.


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zev posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi , Happy 2012 to you all hope you all have a wonderful year. I'm confused about my anti freeze. My original anti freeze in my car is the OAT which is a sort of fluorescent orange/pink colour. I bought a ready mixed bottle from Halfords which is same colour, I bought another one the other day from T.M.S which is described as OAT, but is more of a red colour and not fluorescent. I'm confused now is it still ok to use as the colour is differant. If your wondering why I'm buying so much its because I have a leak, my mechanic tells me my external pump is faulty. I am having a new pump next month when my bank balance has gotton over Christmas. zev :D
My car will be having a service in the next couple weeks so will have it checked then. Thanks Zev
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Yes sorry the coolant. I've been using a ready mixed coolant. Its the orange/pink coolant used by ford or so I hear. I'll get the mechanic to have a look to see what's going on. Thanks for your reply. Zev
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Can't say I've noticed the gas smell when its warm. Isn't it funny how you suddenly notice something that's probably been there all the time, think its probably paranoia in my case. haha. Thanks guys. Zev
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The vectra was 9 years old with 70k on the clock. I knew nothing about cam belts at the time. So I was naturally cautious when I bought my focus last year. Seeing as the salesman had no info on the cam belt I persuaded him to fit me one at no cost to me. So at least now I have no worries for a few years. Zev
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Also popularly known as May Day, Labour Day, and International Workers' Day, May 1st has long been a day to internationally recognize the contributions of the global labor movement and its many struggles and achievements over the years. However, where unions once increasingly empowered workers and gave us all the 40-hour week and the 8-hour day, globalization and advances in technology are severely eroding the ability of unions to effect change.
As automation of the workplace continues to the tune of potentially eliminating half of all current jobs by 2033, and in addition eroding any sense of financial security or consumer buying power through the growth of part-time jobs, low-paid work, temp labor, gig labor, freelancing, and zero-hour contracts, unconditional basic income represents the ability to empower all workers, on an individual basis. A newly gained ability for everyone to say "No" to any and all employers would have an undeniable effect on individual bargaining power. That means greater sharing of profits, higher wages for low demand work, shorter workweeks, improved working conditions, more flexibility, etc. It can even function as a strike fund large enough to support national general strikes the likes of which we've never seen.
The achievement of basic income would be the achievement of a new voluntary contract on more equal footing between employer and employee, including the empowerment of the employee to become their own employer by UBI's functioning as venture capital for entrepreneurs and effective demand for customers. It would mean a solid floor to stand on instead of a safety net full of holes to fall through or be trapped in. It would mean a new age of greater equality, productivity, and innovation, where all are finally free to pursue the goals they wish to pursue, and all work would be recognized for its societal value, instead of only paid work as it stands now. Isn't it time we started recognizing all the important labor going unpaid, of which there is so much?
Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) believes basic income is the future of the labor movement, and the policy we must all together now strive for in the 21st century. And he's also not alone. Unite the Union, UNISON, GMB, TUC, and more, these are unions with millions of members who are now fighting for UBI. It's an idea whose time has come.
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Consider Biennial Plants this Spring
Many people are already familiar with perennial and annual plants, but one type they may not have considered is biennial. Biennial plants complete their life cycle in two years, which is unlike annuals that grow and die within one year, and perennials that last more than two years.
Growing Biennial Plants
In the first year, biennial plants produce only roots, stems and leaves. During the colder months, the biennial plant becomes dormant. Most biennial plants require a cold treatment, known as vernalization, before they can flower. During the spring or summer of their second year, they flower and form seeds, then eventually die.
Most biennials can be planted outside from late spring to early summer. One exception is the forget-me-not, which grows quickly and should not be sown until midsummer. If a biennial plant sets flower buds in the first year, pinch the buds off, since allowing them to flower will diminish their second-year bloom.
Benefits of Biennial Plants
While biennial flowers require a little extra patience, this will pay off the following year. Biennial flowers tend to have intense color or fragrance because they only have one season to attract the attention of birds and insects. To do so, they require deep colors, such as hollyhocks or strong fragrances like the rare giant lily.
Biennial Maintenance
Watering is fairly simple, as many biennial plants are accustomed to cooler climates. Make sure to keep the soil wet during longer dry periods. Try to let biennials rest in the winter since the dormant period is vital to their life cycle. You may also want to stagger your biennial garden so you have blooms each year.
Sometimes, biennials are mistaken for perennials because they can reseed themselves. Once you grow a few, you can end up with plants every year.
Popular Biennials
While there are many biennial plants to choose from, some popular ones include:
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Touting home designs for 40-foot homesites, Plantation's Leona design at 10607 Dolce Lane features four bedrooms, a covered patio and open-concept common area that encompasses the family room, kitchen and casual dining area. Base price on the Leona is in the $240,000s.
New to Meridiana, the entire series of floor plans — eight in all — are priced from the $220,000s. One-story plans range from 1,500 to more than 1,700 square feet with two-story homes up to 2,386 square feet. Standard features include island kitchens, spacious family rooms and two-car garages.
"We've bundled all the essentials into these floor plans — secluded master suites, ample storage, island kitchens and open living areas brightened with natural light," said Paul Blackburn, region president for McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc., (MHI), parent company of Plantation Homes. "It's an excellent entry point for this popular development."
Plantation Homes has also opened a new model for its existing collection of homes built for 60-foot homesites in Meridiana.
The one-story Lindsay offers 2,864 square feet of living space with four bedrooms, four baths, a study, a game room and a three-car garage. Buyers can choose from a range of options including a covered patio with outdoor kitchen, a mini-fridge and wine rack in the kitchen island and a doggy wash station in the utility room — all featured in the model. The model is based priced in the $340,000s. The 14 designs in the series are priced from the low $300,000s to the $370,000s.
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Picks: Reviews of Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization, All In One Keylogger, DietOrganizer, and PS Hot Folders.
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Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization, by Heatsoft Corporation is a cool utility for synchronizing folders and files between computers. In testing it out I synchronized drives on the same computer and on drives on another computer on my network. The program works very well and is quite fast. It has an intuitive interface and is easy-to-use so it's perfect for both new and experienced users. I've tested a lot of similar programs and I was impressed with how quick Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization was in syncing up two large directories. The program compares the directories and clearly shows you the differences between the two. This is shown in the screen shot. Files in one folder that need to go one way are in green, while files in the other folder that need to be copied are in blue. It makes it easy to see exactly what needs to by synchronized. The program can look at things like file size, date, and time to help you get exactly the results you want. Another really nice feature is the ability to completely exclude a folder from the synchronization process. This is really handy when you may have sub-folders that you don't want to be synchronized. Slick. You can also preview the synchronization, create a sync report, and you can even alter date and time stamps. This can be a great feature for dealing with future file synchronizations. In addition, Advanced Directory Comparison and Synchronization shows you a pie chart of your disk space usage. Cool. So, if you're looking for an efficient way to synchronize files and folders, this may be your solution. Check it out.
System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista
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All In One Keylogger, by Relytec is a program that records everything that transpires on your computer. Please note: I personally don't like spying on people and I never spied on my own children. I'm reviewing this product, however, because I had numerous requests from parents. -- Doc. Once the program is installed it's not detectable to the user. It records every keystroke, monitors emails, instant messages, and Web pages that were visited. The program actually takes screen shots of Web sites and notes the time the site was visited. Amazingly, it can even record sounds through your PC's microphone. If you really want to spy on someone this is certainly a product you can use to get all the gory details. Your children won't know the program is running and All In One Keylogger can email you reports or you can sign in to view the logs at the computer. If you like the program can even send reports via FTP. The program could also be used to monitor the activities of employees. So, if you have someone you want to spy on, take a look at All In One Keylogger. It is a full-featured solution.
System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
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DietOrganizer, by 3Company is a product I found because someone asked me about keeping a "diet diary" to share with their doctor. What's cool about DietOrganizer is that it helps you keep a diet diary and it does a lot more as well. For example, you can use it to monitor your exercise and keep a journal. By writing about your activity it can inspire you to do more. You can monitor calories, track what you eat, and more. DietOrganizer also allows you to keep track of your body measurements so you can easily see your progress. I was impressed by the amount of data the program has. There's an extensive listing of foods that you can select from. For each food it shows you the size of the portion, the number of calories, the amount of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. That makes it easy to monitor what you're eating and make revisions. One feature I really like is that the program keeps track of your most frequent selections. In this way the items you select most are also easiest to find. If you like, you can also use DietOrganizer to create stock meals. So, for example, say I often have a poached egg, two slices of toast with jelly, and a glass of milk I can speed up the process of entering it as a menu item that I can just select. Really very slick. DietOrganizer is really a full- featured program for monitoring diet, exercise, and lots more. So, if you'd like some help watching what you eat, this may be your solution. Check it out!
System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
PS Hot Folders, by 3Company is a cool utility that makes it so much easier to get at files and folders. It lets you get past all of the nonsense so you can easily Open, Browse, or Save As. You configure the program to work with the folders you want. As you work with the program you can refine your categorization because it isn't cast in stone. In testing it out I started out using just some basic folders I use for Editorial here on Tucows and the SIAF. Now, the program puts an icon in the system tray and in the open, browse, and save as dialogs of every program. In the screen shot, taken on my computer, I highlighted, in yellow, a little orange square that's in the Save As dialog in my text editor. Clicking on the orange square gives me instant access to the folder I want to get at. So, it doesn't matter what folders Windows have presented me with. One mouse click and I can see my Hot Folders another click and I select one and my document is save where I want it to be. I love it. I more than love it. I tested it in multiple programs including the Boxer Text Editor, Word, Excel, FastStone Capture, and several more. In each one there was the little orange square in the dialogs that took me to the folder I wanted. Yes, you can also use it from the icon in the system tray, but I liked using the one in the dialog. Now, if you want, you can even assign hot keys to your hot folders and this worked well also. One of the key things is that you must read the welcome tour! That tells you how to go about setting up your groups, adding folders, assigning hot keys, and so on. So, read it. You'll find that once you get going with the program you can go in and make modifications to suit yourself. I went in and added some separators between different groups of folders. This, in my estimation, is a very clever product and I'm making it a Dr. File Finder Favorite and those are few and far between. This is a program you have to try. Wow!
System Requirements: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista
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First of all, the classes are mostly all religious, so if you're not Christian, don't apply here. You won't like it. Second, there's very few math and sciences courses, so for all of us uber-challenged, that's a huge plus! The professors are always open to helping new students. Many of them attended LCU or another similar college in the past and understand the difficulty of adjusting to the environment. They also understand a student's need to have fun and often join in!
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I believe Lincoln Christian is a phenomenal school and is exactly what I am looking for. I look forward to attending and being in a christian atmosphere where I can meet new friends. Campus is beautiful!Read More
Lincoln Christian University is a fantastic genuine community. The Professors want you to succeed and be ready to go into the world equipped with useful skills to live a Christian lifestyle in a Secular world. They are engaged in your life and want to get to now you better.Read More
The staff genuinely cares for the students. The facilities are very nice, especially the brand new girls dorm. I love the faith-based, caring community on campus.Read More
The faculty, deans and support staff were extremely friendly and took the time to answer all my questions and share information on the programs, financial aid, and student activities. I also was able to meet with students and get questions answered about student life. It was a very informative and fun day.Read More
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SPAN 331W Spanish Composition and Discussion (1)
Oral and written compositions based upon readings of texts emphasizing Spanish culture and literary vocabulary needed in more advanced letters courses. Exercises in syntax and introductory phonetics. Conducted in Spanish.
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Mad Men Recap: Dawn of an Old Age
Don Draper, 1966 model: a handsome but increasingly craggy stud.
"The only thing worse than not getting what you want is somebody else getting it." That Roger Sterling line, tossed off in tonight's two-hour season-five premiere of Mad Men, refers to a specific moment in the show, but it also hints at the episode's themes. The time is 1966, right after Memorial Day weekend, and the elapsed time between this episode and the events of the last one (about seven months) suggests that many of the characters have traversed psychological distances far greater than calendars would indicate. Envy, disappointment, and fear of losing what you've got: These feelings have always powered subplots on Mad Men, but they're front and center in "A Little Kiss," a classically structured, self-contained, long-form piece. If most installments of the show play like short stories, this one is more of a novella — as well it should be, considering the elapsed time between this chapter and the last one. We've got a lot of catching up to do: Series creator Matthew Weiner (who scripted this episode) and director Jennifer Getzinger glide right into it, delivering an episode that would play like a tedious info-dump — practically a second pilot, or stealth reboot — if the information weren't conveyed with such relaxed confidence and wit.
The story resumes with a prelude set at the rival (real) agency Young & Rubicam. Some frat-house-snotty employees dump water bombs on civil-rights protesters and are confronted by their drenched victims, creating a mini-scandal in New York's ad community. ("And they call us savages," one African-American woman says; it's a terrible line that should have been red-penciled because it seems to validate the usually wrongheaded complaint that Mad Men scores hindsight points off the past.) Don and Roger okay a joke ad in the New York Times promising that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is "an equal opportunity employer" whose "windows don't open," which tells you right away that the series, or at least this episode, will start dealing directly with racial inequality and the Civil Rights movement in the sixties, subjects that were dealt with glancingly, at times in a frustratingly underdeveloped way, before. Sure enough, the premiere ends with African-American job applicants packed into the agency's reception area; Lane Pryce accepts secretarial résumés while Dusty Springfield sings "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." The song's lyrics affirm the show's ability to put a song to more than one purpose. Some of the lines resonate with the struggle for equality and the uneasy relationship between blacks and whites, which at this point is about affirming basic rights and dignities rather than pretending that everything is hunky-dory ("You don't have to say you love me / Just be close at hand"). But because in this episode, as in others, race relations are more a hovering presence than a central subject, most of the song feels like a comment on the characters, most of whom are grappling with disappointment, professional and personal jealousy, aging, mortality, and the reality of having to accept conditions they aren't happy with in order to function day-to-day. "Left alone with just a memory / Life seems dead and so unreal / All that's left is loneliness / There's nothing left to feel." Life does, in fact, seem dead and unreal, or a memory, for many of these people. Many of them have either achieved a dream or are on track to achieve it, yet they're still plagued by feelings of disquiet, deprivation, unworthiness, or a vague sense that there's something better out there.
Don is about to turn 40. Well, sort of: The "real" man, Dick Whitman, turned 40 six months earlier, but Don Draper, the identity Dick assumed during the Korean war in order to remake himself, is actually six months younger. Megan throws a surprise birthday party for her husband complete with a live band, and does a song-and-dance number that reduces the men in the room to Jell-O. But Don reacts as if he's been handed a bag of live worms and told that he can't leave the room until he eats them. Megan, who started the episode floating on a cloud of contentment, is pushed into a funk by Don's allergic reaction to the event, by Peggy's drunken passive-aggressive gripe about her being a slacker, and by Harry's post-party sex fantasy about her, which Megan unfortunately overhears in the office break room; by the end of the episode's first half, she's standing out on their penthouse's balcony alone, having a "Who am I?" moment.
By the close of the episode, Megan has broken down in tears and left work early; when Don finds out and follows her home, she removes her robe and begins cleaning the post-party mess in black underwear, giving her husband a tantalizing rear view of the body he can't have because she's decided he doesn't deserve it. They have sex anyway after Don pulls her up off the carpet and then lowers her back onto it. The dialogue and choreography of this tryst certify the sadomasochistic undercurrents that have coursed through all Don's relationships with women. He is attracted to, and apparently is attractive to, women who feel unloved and/or misunderstood, and who have father issues and consequently get off on Don (sometimes) when he's playacting the part of the big bad daddy. Don loves the thrill of the sexual chase, of finding a way to obtain pleasures that are being pointedly denied to him. He's also a self-loathing man who, for biographical reasons he probably barely understands himself, gets off on being hurt (figuratively and in one case literally). All those things are happening in the look-but-don't-touch scene with Don and Megan, only Megan's slaps are visual. She's assaulting his eyes with a body that she refuses to give him, until he takes it.
When Don sees the Sterlings outside his door and realizes what's in store for him, he looks stricken. He has always hated birthdays; I gather from his post-party dialogue with Megan that he hated them even before he even took another man's identity and had to maintain the fiction. Plus, he micromanages every interaction that personally interests him and ignores or resists what doesn't, and he's not in charge of this event. When he tells Megan later, "I don't like being the center of attention," Megan calls him out on what is, at best, a half-truth: Don loves being the center of attention when he's running the room and overseeing every detail, but when others set the terms of engagement, he has to work to seem comfortable. Megan's improvisation traps Don into pretending to enjoy an event that he actually despises. When she fires up the cocktail jazz-pop band she hired for the occasion and performs a slinky little song-and-dance number — covering the 1961 French version of Sophia Loren's "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo," as performed by ye-ye girl Gillian Hill — he's seated in a chair in the middle of the room. His placement and posture suggest a prisoner who's about to be tortured. Megan's unselfconscious abandon — and Jessica Paré's slinky-innocent performance, which I suspect will be looked back on as the moment that made her a star — also confronts Don, and other characters, with another harsh fact of life: none of them are getting any younger, or hipper. In context of the generational changeover that was fast approaching — in a year, 1967's Summer of Love would be the moment when the Baby Boomers decisively wrested control of pop culture from the World War II generation, and shook up political discourse as well — it's a bombshell moment. Don has never looked as ancient and terrified as he looks when Megan sidles closer to him, putting on a show that's as much a celebration of her own youth and sexiness as a present for her husband. Its subtext — not lost on anybody at the party — is, "Isn't she adorable? Isn't he lucky?"
Well, sure. Don must think so, otherwise he wouldn't have married Megan; along with her easygoing warmth as a potential stepmother, the much-younger woman's smooth beauty and naïveté were catnip to him. The whole package spoke to Don's obsessions with real or concocted beginnings, with perpetually reinventing himself in large and small ways rather than getting bogged down in real world drudgery. That's why Don always enters meetings at the last possible second and leaves as soon as he can; he refuses to be bothered with the boring parts, and because he's carved out a niche as The Idea Guy, he gets away with it. Don always thought younger than anybody else at Sterling Draper Cooper Pryce, even his protégée and soul mate Peggy, even though in calendar years he had plenty of younger colleagues (and a few bona fide rivals). But as Megan coos and wriggles, sliding her hand down the front of her dress in a close-up that emphasizes not just her torso but her engagement ring — Don feels helpless, trapped. When he shaves in the bathroom the next morning, his expression is despairing and a tad baffled. He looks into the mirror and sees an old man staring back at him — a handsome but increasingly craggy stud who can't keep pace with his young wife sexually, much less relate to her perky, at times rather clueless optimism. Where's the guy who dazzled Kodak executives with a Hail Mary pitch for the Carousel slide projector? He's AWOL, like Dick Whitman, though hopefully not for good. Don derives joy from being around Megan, but she also makes him feel the weight of the grave in a way that he did not anticipate when he popped the question during a family trip to Disneyland. I gather that a big part of her appeal is that she lightens his mood because she's always seeking pleasure, but unfortunately, while Don is in the business of selling pleasure, or the desire for pleasure, personally he's not much fun. He's a naturally sour person; even his humor is acidic, judgmental, sometimes bullying. A rainbow married a storm cloud. This can't end well.
The other major characters are experiencing their own periods of dissatisfaction and self-doubt. Pete Campbell always felt underappreciated, but for once he's right. He's stuck in a cramped little office with a concrete strut in front of his door; when he bangs his forehead on said column (in a collision so poorly staged that at first I thought Pete was playing a prank on somebody I couldn't see), he decides he's had enough and calls a meeting with the other partners to demand a better space. I love the camera placement and blocking in this scene: The shots from behind Pete's desk showing the other partners jammed into a narrow little couch make Pete's argument for him. You can't meet with important clients in a place like this; it suggests that the company is a seedy operation that values the wrong things. Pete's solution — that Roger should give up his office because he's not really using it — nearly brings the two men to fisticuffs, and it's finally resolved when Harry, who thinks he's about to get fired for his explicit sex fantasy about Megan, is persuaded to give up his own office. (Roger bribes him, and Harry asks if this is a monthly payment; any scene with these two is comedy gold.) Pete is the only character in this episode who advances toward happiness. His last scene finds him seated in Harry's old office, staring out at the window, at sunlight. (The light in this episode, and presumably for this season, is warm and soft yet merciless. It somehow makes the agency seem more beautiful, a professional dollhouse built of mid-sixties geometric lines and quadrants, even as it illuminates the characters' faces more harshly, emphasizing their paunches and blemishes and excess makeup and the new age lines in their faces. These people aren't quite hip enough to work in this office.)
Joan, once the office's resident mother hen and sex bomb, is chafing at the bit of parenthood, trapped in an apartment with her mother (a very patient woman considering how wrung-out and pissy Joan is) and desperate to get back to the agency. (The hunky, married plumber who's comfortable with babies seems to be on deck as a possible Joan conquest, or diversion.) Spotting and misinterpreting the ad that Don and Roger placed in the New York Times to needle the Y&R water-bombers, Joan shows up at the office, pram in tow, to get her old job back. One of Mad Men's great strengths is its ability to hint at characters' inner states simply by observing them in action, and that strength was nicely showcased here. The baby is handed from character to character like a hot potato; each character's reaction to it is a sidelong comment on past plot twists. Don, always a master at selling people's fantasies back to them, looks past the infant and flatters Joan's voluptuousness, reminding her of the identity she had before she got married and then impregnated. The impregnator, silver fox and Joan ex-boyfriend Roger Sterling, sees her and announces "There's my baby!" but because the "baby" in question is Joan, it's a joke. (Or is it?) Peggy, who had her own secret child with Pete and gave it up for adoption in season one, declines to hold the kid because "my hands are dirty." Later, Peggy hassles Pete to take the baby, and he acts as if she asked him to carry a cobra to a scorpion pit and leap in. It's telling that from the second Joan entered the hallowed corridors of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, she all but abandoned her new infant and instantly reverted to office problem-solver mode. When her baby was finally returned to her, it seemed to take a moment for her to register that she had one. Mad Men star Jon Hamm vaguely hinted in a pre-season panel discussion that Don and Joan might have an affair this year; it's always hard to know if this show's actors are feeding us information or disinformation, but between Don's elated reaction to Joan, Megan's last minute non-invitation to the surprise party, and Joan's comment about how Don must be even more handsome blushing, I tend to think there's something to it.
Roger, who already feels old even though he remarried young like Don, feels even older when he sees Don practically skipping to work alongside Megan. Plus, he's dealing with feelings of professional impotence. He chats up the secretary he shares with Pete to sneak looks at Pete Campbell's calendar so that he can party-crash Pete's client meetings and do the Everybody's Favorite Drinking Buddy routine, which is growing increasingly stale the older and less productive Roger becomes. (Pete's prank on Roger — faking an early morning Staten Island meeting with Coca-Cola to send Roger on a wild goose chase — certifies his increased stature as surely as the new office he wrangled. You don't dare out-prank Roger unless you feel strong.)
Peggy was a minimal presence in this episode, though I'm sure that'll change soon enough. She seemed at ease, but just barely. She's still seeing the Village Voice reporter and seems to have conquered, or at least stifled, any lingering inequality issues in the office (though the boys still act like boys when she's not around). But she, too, seems to be verging on inertia, as if she's less worried about gaining ground than potentially losing it. The kidney bean account is another metaphor for the ills affecting these people: her pitch is boring, obviously a stopgap measure; she oversells the virtues of slow-motion (which was about to become a pervasive cliché in both movies and TV ads) because she doesn't have any actual ideas; a photographic technique that can show a bullet spinning in midair is being used to create a "bean ballet" and make the legumes look, as Peggy unfortunately blurts to the clients, "far more important than they are." The suggested tagline for the rejected campaign is enough to make you want to curl up in a ball and moan softly: "The Art of Supper."
Everybody's running in place and wondering why, and what to do about it. "I'll be here for the rest of my life," Pryce tells Delores on the phone, with startling casualness. "What's wrong with you people?" Megan tearfully asks Peggy, by way of forcing an apology for her snide aside at Don's party. "You're all so cynical. You can't smile. You can only smirk." "Why don't you sing like that?" Roger asks his wife while Megan croons to Don. "Why don't you look like him?" she replies. "I want you to be happy," Roger tells Don, regarding Megan. "Somebody should be." Even Pete is feeling the funk. He takes his responsibilities as both husband and junior partner seriously, and demands respect commensurate with his achievements, but there's an anger simmering beneath his wan smiles when he talks to a stereotypically randy businessman buddy on the train, as if he's aware of having put away childish things by necessity rather than by choice. Change is on the horizon, a great sociohistorical wave that's about to wash away a lot of what the once-dominant older generation insisted was important. It happens every couple of decades and always will happen; it's part of the cycles of individual and national life that Mad Men, a timeless drama posing as a time-specific one, examines so well. "Stable," Pete says, "is that step backward between successful and falling." "I don't want to talk," Don tells Megan after that mortifying "surprise" party. "I just want to go to sleep."


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Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) -- Ten minutes ago a woman called me and told me she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. As I'm standing in the garage, writing her story onto the huge canvas with the others, the only audible sound was my sharpie scraping against the paper, but her voice never stopped spinning in my mind.
Telling a story is like an invitation for others to share their stories with you. That's what I discovered at TED when I shared my story about a limitation that held me back from my dream.
After delivering my talk, I found myself constantly being stopped by people eager to share their stories, as hearing mine made them reflect on their own struggles, triumphs, hopes and fears.
This sharing experience stuck with me, and now two months later, I'm in the midst of receiving thousands of stories through my current art project. I had the idea to crowdsource stories about facing limitations. These stories are written onto the canvas, and collectively they create my current art piece.
What started out as connecting with people through a work of art quickly turned into a documentation of our modern culture.
If we either rewind or fast forward 1000 years, many of these stories would still be relatable. No matter how individualized our stories are, and no matter how much times have changed, we share the same core human experiences in faith, self-identity, health, addiction, love, loss, etc.
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Here are two stories that have been shared:
"On paper, I have the perfect life. I'm married to a man who loves me more than I deserve, beautiful, healthy children, and a great career. But I'm in love with someone else that I can't be with and it impairs me every day."
"I was 14 and my mom and I were in a really bad place. We had just gone through a messy divorce from an abusive marriage. She had also been diagnosed with breast and skin cancer and we were very worried about how we would pay for the medical costs without her job. Our faith was slipping. We were standing in line at a pharmacy, we both had pneumonia. This really nice elderly women was in line behind us and my mom let her go in front of us and the woman introduced herself, and put her hands over us and started praying, right in the middle of the Pharmacy. My mom got a check from the insurance company a few weeks later. A few months after that she was hired at a new job. She is currently in her 8th year of breast cancer remission and her 3rd year of skin cancer remission. My faith has been renewed and we could not be in a better place. My mother is my hero."
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There are also many stories that encapsulate our society and culture at this very moment -- from the first openly gay couple being able to adopt in Florida, to the innumerable amount of people struggling with obesity, to the increasing number of parents raising autistic children.
What stands out to me the most is that given the opportunity for anonymity in this project, many people are brutally honest about how lonely they truly are in their experiences, thinking no one could possibly know what they're going through.
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Within this wired culture, we've become edited versions of ourselves. We may tweet, "Just got a Pepsi, new bottle design. Sweet!" but we don't say, "I'm sad and alone. I had no one to talk to so I went to the store to chat with the clerk while buying a Pepsi."
I can't help but wonder, what's the cost of becoming our "edited" selves instead of our authentic selves? We shouldn't share just gumdrops and butterflies, because the hearty and rocky parts are what help us find our authentic selves.
This slice of life, our lives, that are being captured in this piece are still ongoing and developing. What will continue to come out of it? I don't know, but I wait with fascination and a tired writing hand. What's your story? Share it and be part of art at philinthecircle.com.
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Elisabeth arrived at Lakeland as a math major, but ended up double-majoring in math and music. More and more, her passion shifted toward playing music and reaching new heights on the piano.
After graduating in 2010 with a degree in piano performance and pedagogy, Elisabeth applied to and was accepted by the James Madison University School of Music. She earned a masters of music and while she was there, taught classes in piano proficiency for non-piano majors.
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TRACK: Minster boys capture Memorial title (with photo gallery)
MINSTER — The Minster boys track team won the Minster Memorial Invitational on Saturday, distancing itself from the rest of the 14-team field with 165 points on a soggy day. New Bremen finished fifth, St. Marys took seventh and New Knoxville was 14th in the boys standings.
The Minster girls team finished second to first-place Versailles (116 points) with 105 points. New Bremen finished seventh, St. Marys was ninth and New Knoxville took 15th in the 16-team girls event.
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Boys Top Finishers
The Minster 3200 meter relay team won the with an 8:15.38 time, the 800 meter relay team won with a 1:34.86 time, the 1600 meter relay team won with a 3:37.11 time,
New Bremen senior Ben Chaney won the 110 meter hurdles with a 15.87-second time.
Minster senior Derek Collins was a double individual winner. Collins edged Delphos St. John's Justin Stewart by just a tenth of a second in the 200 meter dash with a 23.64-second time. Collins also won the long jump with a mark of 20 feet, 11.75 inches. He also finished second in the 100 meter dash with a 11.56-second time.
Minster sophomore Paul Dues won the high jump by clearing 5 feet, 10 inches and winning a jump-off against Versailles' Craig Pothast.
Minster swept the throwing events.
Wildcat senior Jake Winner caputred the discus throw title with a throw of 151 feet, eight inches. Minster's Ryan Will took second with a throw of 149 feet, five inches.
Will won the shot put with a throw of 52 feet, one inch. Minster's Wes Hegemann was second (46-2.5).
Second-place finishers were Minster's Francis Slonkosky in the 1600 meter run (4:28.28) and the 800 meter run (2:01.23), the St. Marys 400 meter relay team of Adam Brown, John Phillippe, Tre Sherman and Dustin Fisher with a 53.26-second time, New Bremen's Elliott Westerbeck in the 400 meter dash (53.31), St. Marys' Brennan Brown in the 300 meter hurdles (43.44), Minster's Dominic Slonkosky in the 3200 meter run (10:21.35) and the New Bremen 1600 meter relay team (3:44.42).
Girls Top Finishers
The Minster 800 meter relay team won with a 1:51.89 time, the 400 meter relay team won with a 52.33-second pace, and the 1600 meter relay team won with a 4:17.36 time.
New Bremen senior Kyleigh Suchland won the long jump with a mark of 16 feet, 0.75 inches.
Kayla Wuebker won the pole vault by clearing 11 feet, 3.5 inches.
Second-place finishers were Minster's Hannah Barga in the 100 meter dash (13.28) and St. Marys' Erin Kinkley in the high jump (4-10).
1. Minster 165, 2. Versailles 79, 3. Spencerville 51, 4. St. Henry 47, 5. New Bremen 46, 6. Crestview 44, 7. St. Marys 37, 8. Fort Loramie 34.5, 9. Houston 33, 10. Marion Local 26.5, 11. Russia 24.5, 12. Sidney Lehman 24, 13. DSJ 22, 14. New Knoxville 14.5.
1. Versailles 116, 2. Minster 105, 3. Spencerville 74, 4. Marion Local 64, 5. Russia 52.5, 6. Fort Loramie 48, 7. New Bremen 35, 8. Botkins 31, 9. St. Marys 27, 10. Crestview 21, 11. Sidney Lehman and St. Henry 19, 13. Houston 17, 14. Parkway 15.5, 15. New Knoxville 12, 16. DSJ 7.


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Sir Bobby Charlton made his Manchester United debut 60 years ago today (Thursday), when he scored twice in a 4-2 superiority during Charlton Athletic at Old Trafford.
Charlton joined Collaborative in 1953 as an England Schoolboys prodigy with a big reputation and was yearning to occasion his mark in Matt Busby's free-flowing team. With Tommy Taylor away with England on global job on a amusement against Northern Ireland, his hulking chance arrived, five days stunted of his 19th birthday.
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Rusty - you break my heart, but I understand.All the above changes are noted and there are three spots open. 3:00, 5:30 and 6:00.As for events after, what do we want to do? I am not sure how many of you are planning on hanging out (I will be there all day) but we can plan to meet later in the evening if that is what people want.
Chas, looks nice, but we have a forum titled, "Modifications." :wink:
Oh, sorry your moderatorship... :roll:
Why aren't they doing this in JR's car? Something tells me they are and he's just not telling us the full truth. Or maybe he doesn't know any better. Did you ever see the POS Mazda he used to drive? A badly tuned,loping idle Passat would feel like sailing on glass smooth water compaired to that wreak!
FIGHT! Fight!!!J/k I know two people that both drive elegent green B5's are going to poke at each other. After all you can not argue about who has the better color car :lol:
We all know that Silverstone Grey is the BEST color!
*shrugs* He started it.
...But we shall see how "badly tuned" it might be a week from Saturday.
Rusty - you break my heart, but I understand...
...But damn. I know a lot of people wanted to see how my tinkering stacked up against chipping, head-to-head. I wanted to see it, too. dammit... damn tranny gone bad in wife's truck. If it wasn't for that, I'd risk the bald tires and bad CA's to come up there. When it rains, it pours...
Randy, maybe we could ask everyone who is coming to do a little printed sheet of all the mods they have done to their cars and put it up in the window for all to see. Sometimes the mods we do to our cars aren't that noticeable. It might be fun for other to see and compair what other folks have. Just an idea I had today while driving around... :roll: